Hatch's handling of hacking decried

Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake) ^ | February 07, 2004 | Lee Davidson

[glock rocks]

Has Orrin been spending too much time with the swimmer?

[glock rocks]

bonk.

[Pukin Dog]

Hatch's behavior suggests that someone has got the goods on him. Something that would cause him to lose election in Utah. My guess he has a moral-failing in his background; something on his FBI report that would end his political career if he ever did anything courageous.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

That's what I thought when I read this article: Hatch has been getting too friendly with the Ted "give me another drink" Kennedy. Hatch is nearing retirement and won't be able to get into the good D.C. parties unless he starts selling out.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

Hatch would make a great senator from Conneticut. how the hell he's made a career in Utah is beyond me!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

That's probably true. Sounds like Orrin has been filmed in a hotel room with a woman of loose virtue or has a kid somewhere that he doesn't want anybody to know about.

[Cicero]

Many of the weak-spined Republican leaders have FBI files. Hillary has all of the FBI files, not just 900 of them. Plus she probably has all the CIA files. The clintons never hesitated to use our intelligence services for their own purposes.

[glock rocks]

Can we send him back to Pennsylvania now?

[Jeff Chandler]

Hatch's behavior suggests that someone has got the goods on him.

I imagine the same could be said of all the inhabitants of Capitol Hill.

The problem is that if word got out that a Republican senator was, for instance, porking an underage intern of the same sex, it would ruin him, while the same revelation about a democrat senator would boost his popularity amoung his constituents.

[nuconvert]

He's been spending too much time with Ney, that's for sure.

[pabianice]

This sort of gutlessness is going to make Bush lose reelection. Conservatives are just going to stay home on election day.

[Jeff Chandler]

I wrote all. I meant to write most.

[glock rocks]

Wait for the cave on the "assault weapon" ban... Hatch caved after Columbine. I'd be delighted to find it was the FBI files under Hillary!'s bed that causes that (neatly concealed with rose law records, no doubt), because the alternative is worse.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

you may have been right the first time...

[glock rocks]

LOL

[Pete-R-Bilt]

stacked under the notes of her, then yet to be written book?

[Eva]

Does Hillary have Hatch's FBI file?

[deport]

Former Frist staffer files ethics complaint over Democratic tactics
ROBERT GEHRKE, Associated Press Writer
Friday, February 6, 2004

(02-06) 16:02 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

A former aide to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who resigned amid an investigation into Democratic strategy memos leaked to the media filed a Senate ethics complaint Friday alleging "public corruption" by Democratic senators and staff.

Manuel Miranda said in a letter to Robert Walker, the Senate Ethics Committee's chief counsel, that the memos show "a violation of the public trust in the judicial confirmation process on the part of Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee."

"This includes evidence of the direct influencing of the Senate's advice and consent role by the promise of campaign funding and election support in the last midterm election," wrote Miranda, who handled judicial nominations for Frist.

Miranda formally resigned his post in Frist's office on Friday. He had been on administrative leave pending the result of an investigation into whether Republican staffers violated any laws or Senate rules in obtaining the memos.

In his letter to the committee, Miranda said the Democratic memos contain "documents evidencing public corruption by elected officials and staff of the United States Senate."

David Carle, a spokesman for Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's ranking Democrat, said there was a "whiff of desperation" in the letter from Miranda, whom he described as "someone who has just resigned in the midst of an investigation about theft and wrongdoing."

"There also is no small irony in his accusations, considering that his very job was to plot strategy with outside, right-wing Republican groups," Carle said.

Judiciary Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, began the investigation in November after Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin of Illinois and Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts protested what they said was the theft of the memos from their computer servers.

The memos, concerning political strategy on blocking confirmation of several of President Bush's judicial nominations, were obtained and reported on by The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times.

Senate Sergeant-at-Arms William Pickle has been working with the Secret Service and outside investigators since November to determine how the Democratic memos got to Republicans. Pickle's investigation is expected to be completed within the next few weeks.

Hatch placed one of his aides on leave late last year for improperly obtaining data from the computer networks of the two Democratic senators. That aide, who has not been identified, left government work and returned to school.

[glock rocks]

That could be a reason he's departed from reality over the last several years... there may be more. I'd considered the likelyhood he's trying to appear more moderate for the last years to grease the judicial appointment skids.

Lately, though, I think he's just nuts.

Who's music is he dancing to?

[EGPWS]

Does Hillary have Hatch's FBI file?

Better yet has she, in the past, amended it? ; )